Essen

Date

2 June 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

195 aircraft

Sortie details (which aircraft from which squadron, which crew flew, the outcome) will populate this page once the TNA AIR 27 squadron-diary importer arrives.

The fallen

238 airmen in this archive died on 2 June 1942 or the day that followed. For a raid of this kind these are overwhelmingly the night's losses, though a death-date match is not by itself proof an individual flew this operation.

• Air Mechanic R R S. (billie) Ainslie (39)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Bruce Albright (28)
• Sergeant Alastair Macdonald Anderson (21)
• Sergeant Finlay Emmerson Anderson (20)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Clifford Andrews
• Sergeant Ronald Albert Archer (24)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Winston Armstrong (23)
• Sergeant Richard Armstrong (27)
• Sergeant Stanley Arnett (26)
• Sergeant Clifford Baines (21)
• Pilot Officer Alfred George Bake (25)
• Pilot Officer Ross Lloyd Baltzer (26)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Francis Beaumont (27)
• Flight Sergeant Dudley Raymond Beinke (21)
• Squadron Leader David John Bell (30)
• Sergeant Oliver Percy Beswick (27)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald John Biglands (28)
• Pilot Officer Kelvin Cholwill Billing (24)
• Pilot Officer Francis John Blackwood (28)
• Leading Aircraftman George Victor Blake (21)
• Sergeant David Boddy (30)
• Flight Sergeant Fred Booth (21)
• Flight Sergeant Hugh Rowell Brodie (30)
• Sergeant Wilfred Brookes (28)

See all 238 who died on 2 June →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →